3Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?


In Context

1 And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: To morrow about this time a bushel of fine hour shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of Samaria.

2 Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make hood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

3 Now there were four lepers, at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another: What mean we to stay here till we die?

4 If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and if we will remain here, we must also die: come, therefore, and let us run over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live: but if they kill us, we shall but die.

5 So they arose in the evening, to go to the Syrian camp, And when they were come to the first part of the camp of the Syrians, they found no man there.

2 Kings 7:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, "Why stay here until we die?

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:3And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, |Why do we sit here until we die?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3And four men have been leprous, at the opening of the gate, and they say one unto another, 'What — we are sitting here till we have died;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:3And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?